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Capital / Liquidity
BNM Issues Draft Framework on Recovery, Resolution Planning
By Editors | 20/01/2020
Each financial institution will be required to identify and plan for the execution of a suite of recovery options to restore its long-term viability under a range of stress events.
Capital / Liquidity
Sri Lanka Offers Credit Support for Banks to Boost SME Lending
By Editors | 18/01/2020
The new scheme provides risk mitigation support to banks that defer principal repayment and extend new loans for SME borrowers, including those that have defaulted.
Capital / Liquidity
Sri Lanka to Enact New Banking Act in 2021
By Editors | 10/01/2020
The new Banking Act will streamline the licensing process, branch approvals, and adopt a proportionality framework for banking regulations, among other changes.
Capital / Liquidity
12 Banks Fail to Meet Bangladesh Capital Requirement
By Editors | 10/01/2020
The total capital shortfall among the 12 banks was reported to be over $2bn as of the end of September, amid rising bad loans in the banking sector.
Capital / Liquidity
RBI Introduces Supervisory Action Framework for Troubled UCBs
By Editors | 09/01/2020
Under the framework, the RBI will monitor UCBs’ asset quality, profitability and capital, and initiate supervisory action when specific thresholds are breached.
Capital / Liquidity
Three Emerging Risk Issues for Banks in Hong Kong
By Simon Topping | 09/01/2020
There are three key areas where Hong Kong regulators are expected to turn up the heat in 2020, says KPMG’s Simon Topping.
Capital / Liquidity
Bangladesh Banks Given Final Deadline to Cut Lending, Deposit Rates
By Editors | 07/01/2020
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says banks have a final deadline of 1 April to bring down the maximum lending rate to 9% and the maximum deposit rate to 6%.
Capital / Liquidity
PBOC Announces First Reserve Requirement Cut of 2020
By Editors | 03/01/2020
The RRR cut will release about 800bn yuan of ‘long-term funds’ for financial institutions to lend to the real economy.
Capital / Liquidity
UPDATE – RBI Tightens Scrutiny of Urban Cooperative Banks
By Editors | 31/12/2019
The RBI is tightening exposure limits, mandating that a larger proportion of loans come from small borrowers, and requiring bigger UCBs to report large exposures on a quarterly basis.
Capital / Liquidity
CBIRC Issues Revised Regulations for Foreign Banks in China
By Editors | 30/12/2019
The revised regulations implement the removal of foreign ownership limits and asset thresholds for setting up local units, among other relaxations.
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